Wednesday, April 27, 2016

I got this great sentiment set from Craftin Desert Divas Perfect Pair - full of cute couples! I choose the peas and carrots to go with the linky party theme this week.

I used Lawn Fawn stitched rectangle dies for my panels, one in watercolor paper and the larger one from a piece from the Lawn Fawn Beach Side petite pack.

I used my cricut explore to cut out the peas and carrot out of white watercolor paper. I then colored the images with Distress Inks. I splattered them with some perfect pearl water. I heat embossed clear powder on the carrot top and added lines with a black gelly roll pen. I used a white gelly roll pen on both the carrot and the peas for a little highlight.

I used the same Distress Ink colors to create a watercolor background. I also splattered that with some perfect pearl water and flicked the colors for color spots. I stamped the sentiment with Lawn Fawn Walnut ink and added some Doodlebug glitter enamel dots to finish.

I used my explore and cut the two images, Flower from the wrap it up cartridge and MOM from Cricut font and Basic Shapes, from white watercolor paper except for the mom background. I used distress ink on all the images and splattered the flower outline with perfect pearl water. I also added some clear wink of Stella to the leaf accents.

For the background I used Lawn Fawn Stripey Backdrop Die on black paper and added black, white, iridescent and pink sequins.

I really like this card, I thought it turned out really great and love the color against the black and white background.

I am entering this card in the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - Mothers Day and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is Anything Goes this week so every card I make this week will be entered into that as well.

Saturday, April 23, 2016

Got a new Lawn Fawn stamp set so I decided to use it for the Lawnscaping sketch challenge. . .

I used Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle dies for all three of the panels. I stamped the dinosaur in LF Plastic Flamingo ink and water colored with DI Picked Raspberry and Spun Sugar. I added glossy accents to the flower and a single shaker bead to the middle. I used a gold foil washi tape for the diagonal lines and added some sequins.

I think this card turned out very cute! And what better way to make something girly, than by making it pink and adding a flower!

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Started with Lawn Fawn stitched rectangle dies for all three panels, I am addicted to these things! It's great that they have a size that covers the front and that the dies fit within each other nicely. . . .

I used Lawn Fawn Sunny Skies for the clouds, stamped in LF Fish Tank and added some Distressed Ink in Chipped Sapphire, umbrella from LF Plus One stamp set and colored it in with Zig Clean Color markers, rain drops from LF Hello Baby and the Sentiment is from LF Treat Yourself stamped in Fish Tank. I used a white gelly roll pen to added accents tot he clouds and dots to the umbrella.

My sentiment and little bear are both from the MFT Warm $& Fuzzy Friends stamp kit that came in the March card kit. I colored the bear with Zig Clean Color markers and put a little perfect pearl and glossy accents on the fish.

The brown wood grain background paper also came form the kit, as did the first blue layer. I used Lawn Fawn Ocean Wave border dies on my water and layered them. Added some blue sequins for some sparkle!

I am really looking forward to the next MFT card Kit, suppose to some out tonight at midnight!

Saturday, April 16, 2016

I used Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle dies to die cut my panels, to create the top border for the shaker window I used two dies in size order and die cut at the same time to get just the border.

I used the Craftin Desert Divas Stamp set So Long, I just love this little giraffe! I stamped him on my top panel and then flicked Distress ink for a background, I also decided to flick ink on the shaker background so that it wouldn't be flat.

I then colored the giraffe in with the same colors. I actually ended up not liking the original giraffe so I stamped a second one, colored it in and then fussy cut it and put it on top of the one I didn't like. EW. I HATE fussy cutting, there is a reason I get the matching dies. . . .

I cut a little speech bubble for the sentiment. I used some seed beads and 4 different colors of sequins in the shaker. I put a few on the front to tie it all together.

I really like this card, even though I had problems with my first giraffe, it turned out exactly how I had imagined it.

Monday, April 11, 2016

Here is the card I created for the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge #274 - Babies

I have a Cricut Explore and used the Blocks image from the 9 Months Cartridge.

I started my panel with a die cut from Lawn Fawn stitched rectangle dies.

I cut the block outlines out about 8 times so that I could stack them in order to make this a shaker card. I glued them together with Zig 2 way glue pen. Once they dried I attached the stack to the card base with fast drying glue pen.

I used 1/8" scor-tape to attach a piece of acetate to the back of the top block outline and I scooped in some shaker beads and some sequins that coordinated with the letter for each block. I placed a few sequins on the card front as well and as a finishing touch I put gold stickles all around the edge.

I started with a base panel die cut from Lawn Fawn yellow stripe paper from Polka in the Meadow with the Lawn Fawn stitched rectangle die. Then I used the next die size to cut an inner white panel. I sponged on some Tumbled Glass Distress Ink for the sky on the top portion of the white panel.

The sun and the sentiment are from the Simon Says Stamp set Bring the Sunshine. For the sun I only inked up the outer sun portion, avoiding the wording on the inside and I die cut it out with a circle die. Then I mixed and matched the sentiment, stamping it in Lawn Fawn Fish Tank and Sunflower.

I used two different cloud on this card, Some felt like sticker clouds I picked up at Michael's and then the clouds from Lawn Fawn Blue Skies stamp set. I stamped them on some lawn Fawn pattered paper in Lawn Fawn Fish Tank and die cut them. I adhered them with foam dots so that they would be in front of the felt clouds.

For my floral element I used the sunflowers from the Lawn Fawn Happy Harvest stamp set. I stamped the flower with the Lawn Fawn Sunflower ink and colored them in with Zig Real Color markers. I stamped the stems directly onto the panel and attached the flowers with foam dots.

Sunday, April 10, 2016

I got the My Favorite Things Card Kit for March and I love it! The little woodland animals are sooo cute, starting with the adorable moose!

I stamped him out in black ink and then colored him in with Zig Clean Color markers.

For my card base I used the MFT Biscotti paper that came in the kit. I picked up some gold wood grain paper the other day and decided that this would be the perfect backdrop for my little moose. I die cut both colors with the Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle die and then used a Sizzix circle die to cut my circle. I cut a whole panel of the gold wood grain so that I could have the stitched edging all around my card.

I stamped out the Birthday greeting from Lawn Fawn Year Two birthday stamp with some Distress Ink in Walnut Stain.

I stamped out some of the trees that came in the stamp set on the biscotti paper using Lawn Fawn Jalapeno and die cut them as well. I then added this gold washi tape to the left side and added some Lawn Fawn Lawn wood veneer stars and a few brown and gold sequins.

I am entering this card into the MFT Sketch Challenge and the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

Saturday, April 9, 2016

The challenge at Simon Says Stamp for monday is "Try to Resist" I stamped the planets from the Mama Elephant Space bears set in Versa Mark and clear heat embossed them then did my galaxy on top. Wednesdays challenge is Happy Birthday so this card is doing double duty!

For this background the colors I used for the nebulas are Abandon Coral, Mustard Seed and Cracked Pistachio. I used the smoother side of a piece of Tim Holtz watercolor paper. I took each of those colors and blended a big ol daub of color on the paper. I made the Cracked Pistachio one kinda oblong because I knew I wanted that one to be my biggest color once I was done.

Next I filled in all the white space with Chipped Sapphire, completely surrounding all my color blobs. I went in with Black Soot, getting most of the edges, I left a corner blue, and basically just went over most of the Chipped Sapphire that I just put down. The places where I didn't go over the Chipped Sapphire end up giving you the blue black color of space. I went back in with the Chipped Sapphire and covered those blue spaces again and also did the black again, I kept adding layers until I thought everything looked nice and covered.

I trimmed my panel down a little bit so I added a stripe of blue glitter washi tape to the side and I mixed some galaxy gold Brilliance ink with water and flicked it on top and then also mixed some white acrylic paint with water and used a toothbrush to spray my galaxy with stars. . . .

I got my first My Favorite Things stamp set, Out of this world. I really wanted to use a ton of stuff from this set but I had a really hard time covering my fantastic galaxy! So I just used one of the rocket ships, water colored with the same distress ink colors, die cut and adhered to the corner of the card with some foam tape.

First I tried to do the ink smooshing method, that method never really works for me, I don't know if I have to much water or not enough but it was a fail. So I decided to use the mini round ink blending tool with the distress inks and it was perfect! It definitely takes lots of layers and I think at first it looks a lot lighter than it will be once its all dry.

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

I recently bought a new paper pack and it had this cute flamingo paper in, so adorable!

The paper pack also had the black/white/gold stripe paper in it, I cut a panel with the Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangle die, then using the next size die I cut a panel from the flamingo paper.

I used my Explore to cut a flamingo then used Picked Raspberry Distress ink on the wing for some dimension. I used a sentiment form the Life is Good Lawn Fawn stamp set. To finish the card I added enamel dots.